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Webster 1913 Edition
Potentate
Po′ten-tate
,Noun.
One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
The blessed and only
potentate
. 1 Tim. vi. 15.
Cherub and seraph,
potentates
and thrones. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Potentate
PO'TENTATE
,Noun.
Exalting him not only above earthly princes and potentates, but above the highest of the celestial hierarchy.
Definition 2024
potentate
potentate
English
Noun
potentate (plural potentates)
- A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
- 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, act iii, scene 2
- But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die,
For that's the end of humane miſerie.
- But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die,
- 1900, Theodore Dreiser, "Sister Carrie"
- She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.
- 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, act iii, scene 2
- A powerful polity or institution.
- (derogatory) A self-important person.
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Translations
a powerful leader
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Adjective
potentate (comparative more potentate, superlative most potentate)
- (obsolete) Regnant, powerful, dominant.